Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence.

Excellent piece by Hayley Gleeson on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site:

“More than four years after the first COVID patients began raising the alarm that they weren't getting better, scientists are still racing to unravel the mystery of why a significant minority of people develop debilitating chronic symptoms while others seem to recover just fine. But if the plight of adults with long COVID remains poorly understood, the millions of children who have it worldwide are practically invisible, their suffering — and the formative years they're losing to this disease — obscured by the myths that COVID is "harmless" for kids and the pandemic is "over".

Read the full text here.